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Abbeyfield Society

A charity which provides sheltered housing  and care homes for elderly people, now known just as Abbeyfield. Founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, it owns and manages around 200 houses and 20 care homes (2...

Group, Philanthropy, Social Welfare

Anima Masonic Lodge

Group, Cinema, Philanthropy

Anne Frank Trust UK

Group, Philanthropy

Milly Apthorp Trust

Founded by Milly Apthorp and her son John, as a grant-giving benevolent fund. It donates to a variety of causes within the Barnet area of London.

Group, Philanthropy

Thomas Rhodes Armitage

Thomas Rhodes Armitage was a British physician, and founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Born in Sussex to the landed Armitage family of Farnley Hall (Yorkshire) he was raised ...

Person, Medicine, Philanthropy, France, Germany, Ireland

Art in the Park

Art in the Park is a charity devoted to enriching Londoners' lives and environment through visual arts. They run art and performance based education and training workshops, and are involved in comm...

Group, Art, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy

Lord Ashcroft, Michael Anthony

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, Conservative politician, occasional tax-payer.

Person, History, Philanthropy

Robert Aske

Son of a draper. Worked as a haberdasher; 1643 became a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company; 1666 elected an Alderman of the City of London. He became Master of the Haberdashers' Company. But the r...

Person, Philanthropy, Race Issues

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount

Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family.  Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts.  On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA

Thomas Bailey

Cut-glass manufacturer and philanthropist, resident in Brixton, who founded the Trinity Homes there in 1822. Originally from Staffordshire, Bailey made his money as a partner in Neale & Bailey...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy